2 Peter 2:20-22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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All Need To Consider What Following This Teaching Involves (2 Peter 2:20-22).

It is often debated as to whether these following verses are spoken about the false teachers, or about both them and their followers. Certainly Revelation 2:22 would suggest the latter. And this would seem to be confirmed by the reference in 2 Peter 2:18 to those who having recently been rescued from the world of sin and corruption are in danger of returning to it under false colours. Thus this would seem to be a general warning to all, both teachers and followers.

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2 Peter 2:20-22

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.